News from June 2019
By DOT News Wire | Jun 28, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on June 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Above: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao is joined by representatives from 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries including Minister Dietrich of Argentina, Minister Gomes de Freitas of Brazil, Minister Hutt of Chile, Minister Montague of Jamaica, Minister Jara Risco of Peru, Minister ...
By DOT News Wire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao and Brazilian Minister of Infrastructure Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas today signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (Memorandum) that will strengthen collaboration on transportation infrastructure investment strategies and on key transportation priorities in technology and innovation between the U.S. and Brazil.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that former Bandon School District educational assistant and coach Sean Jeffrey Haga, 33, was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison and a life term of supervised release for sexually abusing a 2-month-old infant and distributing photos of the abuse on the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the arrest of Ali Hussein Salamey (37, Tampa) for international parental kidnapping. If convicted, Salamey faces a maximum penalty of three years in federal prison. Salamey was arrested on a federal complaint on June 21, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia as he exited an international flight.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Washington - USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced today that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program (FFP) for crop year 2018, which runs from Oct. 1, 2018, to Sept. 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A Philadelphia drug trafficker with ties to Wilmington was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, to 13 years in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine. According to court documents and statements made in open court, defendant Robert...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Glacier National Park invites bat lovers to the Going Batty Field Trip on Wednesday, July 10, in West Glacier. The event, which is free and open to the public, will run from 8:00 p.m. until around 11:30 pm.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will implement fire restrictions for public lands managed by the Redding Field Office in Shasta, Siskiyou, Butte, Trinity and Tehama counties, beginning Monday, July 1. The restrictions will remain in effect until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - A federal jury found the owner of a Tampa-area medical marketing company guilty today for his role in an over $2.2 million Medicare fraud scheme involving the payment of kickbacks and bribes to medical clinics in Miami in exchange for the referral of DNA swabs that were obtained from Medicare beneficiaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - June 28, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Nagy Mohamed Abdelhamed, age 68, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 27, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, to two years’ probation on Health Care Fraud charges stemming from his fraudulent receipt of Medicaid and SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) benefits, formerly known as Food Stamp benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management released its Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) and Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Uncompahgre Field Office. The proposed plan is expected to contribute approximately $2.5 billion in total economic output to the region, supporting up to 950 jobs over the next 20 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Montebello resident has been charged by a federal grand jury with providing a woman a fatal dose of the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: NORTH BEND, Ore. - As the weather warms and fire danger increases, the Coos Bay District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is implementing public use restrictions on BLM-managed lands on the southern Oregon coast. Starting July 1, 2019 at 12:01 a.m., certain activities on BLM-managed lands in Coos...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Encompass Health Corporation (formerly known as HealthSouth Corporation), the nation’s largest operator of inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), has agreed to pay $48 million to resolve allegations that some of its IRFs provided inaccurate information to Medicare to maintain their status as an IRF and to earn a higher rate of reimbursement, and that some admissions to its IRFs were not medically necessary.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today on the Department of Education’s final repeal of the “gainful employment" rule. Last year, Secretary DeVos announced the Department...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center (CCRLC) and Glacier National Park invite volunteers for a day of hands-on learning during the annual Noxious Weed Blitz on July 18. The event will take place from 10 am to 3 pm in West Glacier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Patricio Saborio Fierro, 29, of Deming, N.M., appeared in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., on Wednesday on a charge of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A New York man today admitted selling dangerous designer drugs, fentanyl, and oxycodone over the internet, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
